Lyla James, A Brave Little Island Girl in Need of Support

With a spinal surgery next week, Lyla James and her family are reaching out to the island for support and aid.

  Lyla James was born seven weeks premature at Tufts Hospital in Boston after her mother spent eight days in labor, finding out only a week before that Lyla had a heart defect called Critical Pulmonary Stenosis that required a simple heart procedure called a cardiac catheterization. After she was born, weighing 3 lbs 14 oz, Lyla underwent the procedure at Children's Hospital Boston, which caused her to go into cardiac arrest for half an hour, also triggering a brain hemorrhage in the back left lobe of the brain. When her parents, Raleigh and David, finally made it to the hospital, she was completely unconscious, intubated, jaundiced, her left side was purple due to lack of blood flow, and she faced the possibility of foot and hand loss. …

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